When I read below thread in arm forum, I still not clear which one is the safety way.
Cortex-M4: guaranteed wakeup from WFI?
There're two solutions mentioned above, using WFE instead of WFI, and swap __WFI() and __enable_irq().
I can understand WFE method but in real cases seems more common to use WFI with properly disabling interrupt. so I want to make sure if the second method is OK.
Generally, there're some logic conditions we need to check to see if we're OK to go to sleep. Assuming in a classic single thread system, somewhere within main loop, the code will be like below:
while (1) { .... .... __disable_irq(); if (condition == true) { __WFI(); } __enable_irq(); ... }
And in the wake up event interrupt:
wake_up_isr() { condition = false; }
1) If wake up event (assuming a pin interrupt) comes before critical section, condition variable will be set true and system will not go to sleep.
2) if wake up event (assuming a pin interrupt) comes just before __WFI(), as interrupt is disabled, the system will go to sleep, my question is: will system be waked up if some interrupt pending bit is set?
Hi,
Sorry for the delay.
In such case (the IRQ is pending), then the WFI will wake up immediately (depending on when does the IRQ arrive in relative to WFI execution cycle, the processor could go into sleep for a very short time).
regards,
Joseph
Thanks, Joseph.